He was resident on the Canary Islands for part of his life, and co-authored L ' Histoire Naturelle des Îles Canaries ( 1835 – 50 ) with Philip Barker Webb.

His books included L ' Histoire Naturelle des Iles Canaries ( 1835 – 44 ), co-authored with Philip Barker Webb and Sabin Berthelot.

* William Webb Ellis, sometimes apocryphally credited with inventing rugby football

Webb then worked with Associate Administrator ( later Deputy Administrator ) Robert Seamans to reorganize the Office of Manned Space Flight ( OMSF ).

Webb went 16 – 8 with a 3. 10 ERA and in the 2006 season was named to his first All-Star team.

In the 2007 regular season, the Diamondbacks enjoyed success with a young team including Brandon Webb, Conor Jackson, Stephen Drew, Carlos Quentin, Chad Tracy, Chris Young, Miguel Montero, Mark Reynolds ( called up from Double-A in May ) and Justin Upton ( called up from Double-A in August ).

They met Arizona in the NLDS, but controversy followed as Piniella, in a move that has since come under scrutiny, pulled Carlos Zambrano after the sixth inning of a pitcher's duel with D-Backs ace Brandon Webb, to ".... save Zambrano for ( a potential ) Game 4.

His first project for Webb and Knapp was an apartment building with funding from the Housing Act of 1949.

The team also redesigned the Webb and Knapp office building, transforming Zeckendorf's office into a circular space with teak walls and a glass clerestory.

The Vikings proceeded to upset the dynamic Eagles offense, led by a resurgent Michael Vick, 24 – 14 with rookie Joe Webb at the helm.

* 1806 – William Webb Ellis, credited with the invention of Rugby ( d. 1872 )

In 1926, as the Fellows had become increasingly disenchanted with Waterhouse's Hall, Maurice Webb was brought in to remove the open roof, put in a flat ceiling and add two storeys of sets above.

William Webb Ellis is often credited with the invention of running with the ball in hand in 1823 at Rugby School when he allegedly caught the ball while playing football and ran towards the opposition goal.

The Rugby World Cup, first held in 1987, takes place every four years, with the winner of the tournament receiving the Webb Ellis Cup.

The second adaptation was broadcast on 15 July 2007 as part of a celebration of Stoppard's 70th birthday ; the production was directed by Peter Kavanagh with Danny Webb as Rosencrantz, Andrew Lincoln as Guildenstern, Desmond Barrit as The Player, John Rowe as Polonius, Abigail Hollick as Ophelia, Liza Sadovy as Gertrude, Simon Treves as Claudius and John Dougall as Hamlet.

In Street ’ s office Morris formed an intimate and lifelong friendship with the senior clerk, Philip Webb, which had an important influence over the development taken by English domestic architecture during the next generation.

In 1861, the decorative arts firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co .( later described by Nicholas Pevsner as the ' beginning of a new era in Western art ') was founded with Morris, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown and Philip Webb as partners, together with Charles Faulkner and Peter Paul Marshall, the former of whom was a member of the Oxford Brotherhood, and the latter a friend of Brown and Rossetti.

An important commission of 1867 was the " green dining room " at the South Kensington Museum ( now the Morris Room of the Victoria and Albert ), featuring stained glass windows and panel figures by Burne-Jones, panels with branches of fruit or flowers by Morris, and olive branches and a frieze by Philip Webb.

" Webb contends that such romantic hits as " Someday My Heart Will Awake " were balanced by " rousing operetta choruses ... and jazz age numbers " while "' Rose of England ' is a stately patriotic piece that stands comparison with Elgar or Walton ".

The Red House, in Bexleyheath, London, designed for Morris in 1859 by architect Philip Webb, exemplifies the early Arts and Crafts style, with its well-proportioned solid forms, wide porches, steep roof, pointed window arches, brick fireplaces and wooden fittings.

Webb rejected the grand classical style and based the design on British vernacular architecture expressing the texture of ordinary materials, such as stone and tiles, with an asymmetrical and quaint building composition.

In September 2010 researchers from Australia said they had identified a dipole-like structure in the fine-structure constant across the observable universe, using data on quasars obtained by the Very Large Telescope, combined with the previous data obtained by Webb at the Keck telescopes.

Trumpet player Mario Bauzá, who played behind Fitzgerald in her early years with Chick Webb, remembered that " she didn ’ t hang out much.

Webb had already hired singer Charlie Linton to work with the band and was, The New York Times later wrote, " reluctant to sign her .... because she was gawky and unkempt, a diamond in the rough.

" Webb offered her the opportunity to test with his band when they played a dance at Yale University.

Lucy Ware Webb Hayes ( 28 August 1831 – 25 June 1889 ) was a First Lady of the United States and the wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes.

In 1964, Bonham joined his first semi-professional band, Terry Webb and the Spiders, and met his future wife Pat Phillips around the same time.

Cyrus admitted he told his wife Vera ( Veronica Webb ), but did not know she told Drew.

Along with his wife, Beatrice Webb, Annie Besant, Graham Wallas, Edward R. Pease, Hubert Bland, and Sydney Olivier, Shaw and Webb turned the Fabian Society into the pre-eminent political-intellectual society of England in the Edwardian era and beyond.

In the introduction of his 1936 work entitled " The revolution betrayed ", Leon Trotsky described Sidney Webb -- and his wife Beatrice -- as " The most authoritative representation of conservatively pedantic socialism ".

* January 22-Beatrice Webb, political writer, wife and collaborator of Sidney Webb

Born Dorothea Webb Parsons, she was a daughter of Arthur Webb Parsons, a lawyer, and his wife, the former Frances Margaret Graves.

She was the daughter of Robert Arden and his first wife Mary Arden née Mary Webb ( second daughter of Sir John Alexander Webb ).

Ebbers filed for divorce in July 1997 and married his second wife, Kristie Webb, in the spring of 1999.

When Webb died, Bardu eventually formed his own band, and made his way to Los Angeles with his wife Tila.

James met his second wife, Constance Webb ( 1918 – 2005 ), an American model, actor and author, after he moved to the USA in 1938 ; they married in 1946 and were divorced in 1953, when James was deported to England.

In addition to the arson evidence, a jailhouse informant named Johnny Webb claimed Willingham confessed that he set the fire to hide an injury or death of one of the girls, caused by his wife, although none of the girls were found at the time of death to have physical injuries still distinguishable after the effects of the fire.

Gardner-Webb University is named for Gardner and his wife, Fay Webb Gardner.

Don Frye made comments to the effect that Shamrock cheated on and divorced his wife to date a young girl ( Alicia Webb was 19 and Ken Shamrock was 35 when they started dating ).

She was born in 1844 in Nauvoo, Illinois to Chauncey Griswold Webb and his wife, born Eliza Jane Churchill.

The news of her return stirs up old jealousies and insecurities: old schoolmates start acting in irrational ways, while Denton Webb ( Jeff Daniels ), the husband she abandoned when she left town, becomes so obsessed by the idea of her return that his wife moves out.

Follett was born at Topsham in Devon, the son of Captain Benjamin Follett, who had retired from the army in 1790 and gone into business, and his wife Ann Webb, daughter of John Webb.

Aware of Webb's deep-seated emotional instability due to the loss of his first wife and children in Vietnam, they hatch a plan to abduct Marie and throw Webb back into the default state under which he operated for Medusa.

He married, as his first wife, on June 10, 1851, at Winchester, Franklin County, Tennessee, Cassandra Webb Garner, daughter of Thomas Heslip Garner, Sr. and Eliza V. Wadlington.